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We've landed at the FISE contest in Montpellier, France. It's not quite summer yet and we even had a little rain this morning but things are looking good for the next few days. And not only weather wise. Gary Young has arrived and had a bit of a jet lag. The Mirraco team riders (Mirra, Spinner, Laird) and also Daniel Dhers are stuck in New York but will arrive tomorrow. 10 English riders (a.o. Webb, Wallace, Surridge, Miller, Watkinson, Aller, Hennon, Yates) have made it across the pond and so has Matt Fairbairn from Australia. 

With killer dirt riders in town for the Extreme Playground contest a sweet dirt session took place at the Abflughalle in Grevenbroich, Germany. It was the solution to get some riding done on a rainy and windy weekend. The indoor dirt place got shredded by everyone who found a ride there and that included Hennon, Nyquist, Wicke, Juergens, Heyer, Forte, Caro and more. With no pressure on anyone the riding took off quickly. The jumps were in perfect condition and the presence of a resi section and foampit brought out the tricks that the riders had in mind but had not completed yet. Wicke pulled no-handed fronties on the resi and triple whips and whip to pedal to whip to pedal in the foampit. The invert award of the day went to Bjorn Heyer. Check his feet on the photo on your right. Dope. Ben Hennon had his throttle stuck on fullgas again with double whips over the big first set and crazy superman looking jumps. Stylish 360-s came from Forte, Caro was pulling his 720-s and Nyquist was riding off his jetleg with all his classic jumps.

"I wanted to do a flatland night club tour through New Orleans. I basically presented the Idea to Red Bull that I wanted to hit 3 night clubs in one night. I wanted to pull people off the dance floors at the clubs and show people how awesome flatland was! I brought along Ben Crockett From BMX PLUS to cover the tour, MC Scott O'Brien to get the crowd hyped while I rode, and of course my Friend Mickey Gaidos to film this great piece . One cool part about the flatland Tour was that we went to each club in a stretch Limo. I was stoked that the tour went well and every person that watched had a new understanding of BMX Flatland!"

Watch the video by clicking here.

We received the results and rider comments from the Asian X-Games. There's a surprise in the Park results. How much longer before the Asians are going to rule the Dew Tour? Heard of Kiattichai Wanitsakun before?

The Liberation Jam in Tilburg was another excuse to get together and ride together. It's a theme that Team Neighbor lives by and fits well in the Dutch BMX scene. After 5 weeks of amazing sunshine and summer temperatures in Holland also this day was a good one. We are welcoming Global Warming as long as the dikes keep the water out.

Anyway, back to the Liberation jam which was organized by BMX-er Jesse de Doelder. On the 5th of May each year we celebrate the end of World War II and festivities take place all over. In Tilburg this year Jesse got a roll-in, jump ramp and quarter to wall at a prime spot in the city center and with the back-up from Red Bull there were some good tunes too. During the day anybody could ride the set-up. Mischa Rath was on the MIC to talk some shit and gap between the launch ramp and landing changed a few times during the day. It was a little flashback to the old GT Airshows that took that same (shitty) take-off ramp all over Europe.

Perfect trails, a good atmosphere and sunshine all around: Those were the conditions for the first T-Mobile Local Support Challenge in the Abflughalle Grevenbroich on the weekend of 21st of April 2007. All in all ten BMX teams from all regions of Germany had a great battle in front of the judges Andy Zeiss, Achim Kujawski and Sari Jörgensen. It was all about top-prizes, like a new Local Support Obstacle or a complete BBQ party. Furthermore there was a T-Mobile Wildcard to be had, awarded to the best unsponsored BMX rider who would then be able to move directly into the finals of the T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds event in Herten on the 12th of May.

The “Sport Import Team” with Markus Hampl, Bjorn Heyer and Benny Paulsen won the team challenge at the end of the day and are now looking forward to a brand new custom made Local Support Obstacle. The T-Mobile Wildcards stayed local with Mike Buse (BMX) going to ride with top-riders like Ryan Nyquist at the Dirt Session, which is the premiere of the T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds series, 

The AST Dew Tour, the world’s premier season-long action sports tour, today announced its pre-qualified athletes for the 2007 season. Athletes are pre-qualified for the 2007 AST Dew Tour’s first stop, the Panasonic Open, based on their rankings at the end of the 2006 AST Dew Tour season. Additionally 3-4 wild cards per discipline have been selected. Athletes who are not pre-qualified may compete as Open Qualifiers at the Panasonic Open and the Right Guard Open to earn a spot in the preliminary rounds. The full list of pre-qualified athletes is as follows:

BMX Park
Daniel Dhers
Scotty Cranmer
Ryan Nyquist
Alistair Whitton
Gary Young
Steven McCann

The first round of the 3 series BMX Flatland World Series took place in Tokyo on Saturday.  Michael Steingraeber is the sole European in the top 20 on place 12. The comp was won by Yoshiki Uchino. Let's see how many Japanese riders will make it to the Voodoo jam in the USA and Flatground in The Netherlands to score points for the overall title.

2007 Round 1 Pro Class results
1 Yoshiki Uchino 1000
2 Yoshihiro Shinde 939
3 Hiroya Morizaki 897
4 Shintaro Misawa 865
5 Hirokazu Miura 840
6 York Uno 817
7 Ryoji Yamamoto 796
8 Shinichi Kiba 778
9 Syuichi Osada 761

Bart pretty much summed up Singapore in his last entry so I'll try to stick to the PIG game this time... Like Bart said they bussed us from the "metro" hotel downtown about 20 minutes to our new home, the Siloso Beach Resort. I think shock and awe pretty much sums up everyone's reaction when we first rolled up. Jay Miron filled

What holidays are more appreciated than those who not only contains the absence of school, but also good times with bikes and friends? The recently finished Easter holiday was just a vacation like that; an opportunity to get away from the tedious weekdays and travel around the country with a bunch of good friends. I (Jon Bokrantz) and Adrian Malmberg had been talking about a trip down to Linköping over the Easter week-end, basically just to get away from home and peacefully enjoy some riding and friendship. But after some discussions forth and back we came up with the idea of extending the former plan and make it into a one week roadtrip. We loosely planned the trip and hoped for consistent luck rather than spending hours of preparation to come up with a strict schedule. So on Thursday morning I threw my bags and my bike into the car and headed down south.